On 14/11/2018 00.23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2018-11-13 a las 22:03 +0100, Bengt Gördén escribió:
Some years ago I stumbled on a nice small bash script that converts to chromecast supported format.
Now it is late, maybe tomorrow I can check on that. Thankyou!
Well, no, it refuses to process it: cer-g@Isengard:~/F_Videos> chromecastize.sh Battlestar\ Galactica\ \ Blood\ and\ Chrome.mpeg `mediainfo` is not available, please install it cer-g@Isengard:~/F_Videos> chromecastize.sh Battlestar\ Galactica\ \ Blood\ and\ Chrome.mpeg =========== Processing: Battlestar Galactica Blood and Chrome.mpeg 'MPEG-TS' is an unknown codec. Please add it to the list in a CONFIG section. cer-g@Isengard:~/F_Videos> I will try this, taking some options from my notes for converting those videos, and others from the script: cer-g@Isengard:~/F_Videos> time nice ffmpeg -loglevel error -stats -i "Battlestar Galactica Blood and Chrome.mpeg" -copyts -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -scodec copy -vcodec h264 -acodec copy "Battlestar Galactica Blood and Chrome.mkv" frame= 915 fps=8.9 q=28.0 size= 13889kB time=10:01:37.36 bitrate= 3.2kbits/s speed= 352x ... Well, it does play well :-) The subtitles are lost, perhaps I forgot... yes, I did. Correcting the command line: cer-g@Isengard:~/F_Videos> time nice ffmpeg -loglevel error -stats -i "Battlestar Galactica Blood and Chrome.mpeg" -copyts -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -map 0:3 -scodec copy -vcodec h264 -acodec copy "Battlestar Galactica Blood and Chrome.s.mkv" frame= 641 fps=8.5 q=28.0 size= 6303kB time=10:01:26.54 bitrate= 1.4kbits/s speed= 481x ... The encoding is too slow in this machine, though. Well, my desktop machine does the conversion at 16 fps, not much faster... I would have to do the encoding in advance to watching the movie. Perhaps lower the quality. Mmm... using -preset medium just improves to 17 fps. Another problem is that VLC is pulling the stream via http from my home server, and when I try to move to a section of the movie it says that the "stream is not searchable" (directly on the computer it is), so it must be a side effect of using http. Maybe I can solve that by using the laptop to "cast" and using nfs or smb or sshfs instead of http. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)